LEARNING ASSISTANCE CENTRE

The Learning Centre at Carson Graham Secondary School is reserved for students with ministry identified learning disabilities. However, throughout the year, students with significant academic struggles may be referred to the Learning Centre by their grade counsellors at the monthly School Based Resource Team meeting. In the Learning Centre students are asked to bring work from their current academic subjects and are given support for their learning as well as strategies and skills to develop as a learner.

COUNSELLING

Counselling services are available to all students secondary school through to graduation. These services include course programming, academic planning, post-secondary planning as well as career exploration. Grade counsellors also provide social-emotional support and counselling for students and assist in referrals to community resources as needed.

CHOICES

The Choices program supports Carson Graham students with social/ emotional and/or behavioural circumstances that may act as a barrier to school success. Students work with grade counsellors and the Choices team to recognize learning barriers, understand the genesis of the barriers, and strategize on possible solutions. Students can be identified as Choices candidates initially by a subject area teacher, grade counsellor or administrator. Teachers can identify students in need of support by observing a decline in their class attendance, performance, or a change in their behaviour. Observations are referred to Grade counsellors, who check in with the student and other teachers to get a broader portrait of a students’ possible challenges. Many factors affect school success both in and out of the classroom, and the principle mission of Choices is to accommodate unique individual circumstances that occur from time to time-with a more flexible, temporary and empathetic approach to school programming​